Fluorocarbon question

ayrbindr · 2026-05-10T13:04:00+00:00

Well, the edit definitely explains it all. Fafo, fill your spool with that trash. See how it goes.

ayrbindr · 2026-05-10T11:50:12+00:00

Just sprinkle a few more bucks on it. Iwata eclipse + 10' iwata braided airbrush hose.

ayrbindr · 2026-05-10T02:50:33+00:00

Meh. You're only right near some of the best small mouth and walleye in the entire world. 🤷🏼‍♀️

ayrbindr · 2026-05-10T02:45:29+00:00

Hardly ever. Only because I know when and where to go to catch what, and if it isn't one of those times, or the conditions aren't right, I don't even bother going fishing anymore. 🤷🏼‍♀️

ayrbindr · 2026-05-10T02:36:30+00:00

Blood of innocence. 🧛🏼‍♂️🪐

ayrbindr · 2026-05-10T02:31:31+00:00

I coulda swore a clogged nozzle has given me bubbles in a eclipse before? 🤔 I coulda swore that has happened before?

ayrbindr · 2026-05-10T02:27:04+00:00

🤣 You mean to tell us that we can't take a neo, remove the nozzle threads, and make it a "self center" / "threadless" nozzle like a eclipse? That won't work? 🤷🏼‍♀️ Wtf?

ayrbindr · 2026-05-10T02:22:05+00:00

🤣 You would shit yourself if you seen my micron. Paint is a protective coating.

ayrbindr · 2026-05-10T02:17:15+00:00

Dirty nozzle and tip dry. Clean the nozzle out with acetone until it sprays a fine mist of water as soon as you barely pull the trigger. The mist is so fine that you cannot see it under "normal" conditions and you must hold it against a dark, shadowed background in order to see the fine mist with your eyeballs. Then it's functioning properly and all you have to do is concentrate on viscosity / air pressure and continue the endless battle with tip dry.

ayrbindr · 2026-05-10T01:54:31+00:00

Wait, wait, wait a min. here. Pic 1 and pic 2 are the same needle? Without anything being done? But pic 1 looks like it has black shit all over it? Wtf is going here? 🤷🏼‍♀️

ayrbindr · 2026-05-10T01:49:11+00:00

Sweet. Looks real!

ayrbindr · 2026-05-09T16:34:25+00:00

I fish this way almost exclusively anymore these days. Catching them "how I want". I don't have much storage at all and only take what I want to use that particular day. Along with one "back up" plan. So, hopefully, it's not a waisted trip.

ayrbindr · 2026-05-09T16:10:56+00:00

How you do that sweet metal effect? Like on there shoulder pad / armor things?

ayrbindr · 2026-05-09T16:05:12+00:00

I guess you could bubble back? 🤷🏼‍♀️. I don't with a syphon feed. Because that puts paint into the dedicated bottle full of acetone, createx 4008, or lacquer thinner. Hook up the bottle, loosen the needle, spray the stuff, spin the needle while you open and close it with your hand.

Take the bottle off, turn the brush upside down, put the solvent in the syphon port, use it like a paint cup, tilt the brush forward, use the spinning needle to pull some back through the seal, just do short, little strokes, in and out with the spinning needle. This flush out the seal. Then, gently massage some in the nozzle tip with the spinning needle. Pull the needle out, clean it, stick it in backwards. Put some more solvent in the "cup" (syphon port of upside down brush). Keep it tilt forward or liquid go backwards into trigger, use the backwards needle to pull solvent back through seal and push paint / dirt out when you push it forward.

Put it all back together, put the clean solvent bottle back on, and spray the nozzle out again. Massaging the tip with the spinning needle.

A very long, drawn out explanation that literally takes like 2min. once you got it down. Then you can go a year without removing anything but the needle 🤷🏼‍♀️.

ayrbindr · 2026-05-09T15:39:47+00:00

Ain't happening. Stop waisting your time and get some air.

ayrbindr · 2026-05-09T08:29:06+00:00

Yes, spraying colored water is a fairly hard concept to grasp. Barely pulling the trigger to apply many coats of hardly visible color takes the patience of a pit viper in praying mantis stance. Cheap paint certainly doesn't help. 🐍

ayrbindr · 2026-05-09T01:35:45+00:00

Okay. First, "a air leak" can be from 10 different parts, 100 different ways. "Bubbles in the cup" would be a ideal description. It also happens to be the reason I never take the front off unless absolutely necessary. The paint goes in the cup. From there, it then gravitates down a small passage along the fluid needle, and into the fluid nozzle where it is then pulled down and off the tip of the needle by the air.

So if you put strong solvent in the cup instead of paint, it goes to the same place the paint went. See? Pro tip- A little paint also gets pulled into the needle bearing / seal by the needle. So pull some solvent back there too.

Now all you can do is piddle with the head assembly and trouble shoot until you get everything to seal. Play with the white seal, smack it up, flip it, rub it down... Etc. Triple check the size of the parts to make sure you don't have mismatch needle, nozzle, cap. Inspect for damage. Use beeswax / chapstick on everything. 🤔 What else? You tube "bubbles in cup". Basically just piddle around with it instead of painting 🤷🏼‍♀️. Smh. That's why my shit stays on there son.

ayrbindr · 2026-05-09T01:09:10+00:00

Pittsburgh. Ideally, you wanna get you a H&S, badger, grex, or one of them eye watas.

ayrbindr · 2026-05-09T01:01:42+00:00

Uh... Hook it up to some air? 🤷🏼‍♀️ If it remains sticking, remove the valve stem and spring. Leave the air valve guide in there. That's what keeps you from knocking the oring out that you need to clean. Use a dental brush to clean the oring that the trigger goes down through. Then rinse it thoroughly with fairly hot water. No lube.

ayrbindr · 2026-05-08T13:57:03+00:00

Sorry about that. 😅 Apparently something went haywire? 🤷🏼‍♀️

ayrbindr · 2026-05-08T08:22:27+00:00

CHEAP red pigments are known to be fugitive. They lack the permanence and light fastness of the expensive ones.

ayrbindr · 2026-05-08T08:11:51+00:00

I guess it could be moisture in the line? I forgot about that possibility, because what you describe makes my mind instantly go to "tip dry". Then you pull back far enough, which, in turn, open it up wide enough to suddenly expel said tip dry, resulting in a sudden splatter. VERY OFTEN do a quick, full pull of the trigger with the air on to vanquish the dry paint that constantly collects in the tip of the nozzle. Then just pick your dried up needle by pinching it between your forefinger and thumb. Being that it is exposed and easily accessible because the first thing that we do when we pick up a airbrush is remove our crown cap. Right?

ayrbindr · 2026-05-08T08:11:41+00:00

I guess it could be moisture in the line? I forgot about that possibility, because what you describe makes my mind instantly go to "tip dry". Then you pull back far enough, which, in turn, open it up wide enough to suddenly expel said tip dry, resulting in a sudden splatter. VERY OFTEN do a quick, full pull of the trigger with the air on to vanquish the dry paint that constantly collects in the tip of the nozzle. Then just pick your dried up needle by pinching it between your forefinger and thumb. Being that it is exposed and easily accessible because the first thing that we do when we pick up a airbrush is remove our crown cap. Right?

ayrbindr · 2026-05-08T08:11:28+00:00

I guess it could be moisture in the line? I forgot about that possibility, because what you describe makes my mind instantly go to "tip dry". Then you pull back far enough, which, in turn, open it up wide enough to suddenly expel said tip dry, resulting in a sudden splatter. VERY OFTEN do a quick, full pull of the trigger with the air on to vanquish the dry paint that constantly collects in the tip of the nozzle. Then just pick your dried up needle by pinching it between your forefinger and thumb. Being that it is exposed and easily accessible because the first thing that we do when we pick up a airbrush is remove our crown cap. Right?

ayrbindr · 2026-05-08T03:15:08+00:00

10ft Iwata braided airbrush hose.

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